Matt Lynch Paroled After Serving 2 Years of 10-Year Sentence for Murder, Oct. 27, 1921

Matt Lynch Is Paroled

The judge and the solicitor both expressing doubt as to the defendant’s guilt, and the jury petitioning Governor Morrison, paroled Matt Lynch of Rutherford County, who has served two years of a 10-year sentence for second degree murder.

Lee was convicted in October, 1919.

Judge James L. Webb, who sentenced him, has written the governor that he now doubts the defendant’s guilt, which opinion, in part, influenced the governor’s action.

From the front page of the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., Oct. 27, 1921